This article provides estimates of the potential anti-poverty impacts of eight proposals
presented in this double issue of RSF. Using the 2016 Annual Social and Economic …

Using a version of the federal government's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)—a more
comprehensive metric than the official poverty measure—we calculate that the poverty rate …

Abstract In 2012, 46.5 million people were counted as poor in the United States—the
number, statistically unchanged over the past three years, is the largest recorded in the …

The American Rescue Plan Act includes a number of other items likely to impact poverty,
including additional child care funding, rental assistance, and more. This analysis does not …

** Correction: The SSI number in Figure B was corrected to 2,949,000 from 3,949,000.**
From 2017 to 2018, the official poverty rate fell by 0.5 percentage points, as household …

The efficacy of the US antipoverty policy is shaped both by its reliance on categorical sorting
and by its decentralized structure. To examine the implications of these features, this study …

The child poverty rate fell to a record low of 15.6 percent in 2016, a little more than half its
1967 level of 28.4 percent. This finding emerges from a new poverty series we have …

Planners and policymakers use poverty estimates as key indicators to evaluate trends and
current economic conditions within communities and to make comparisons across …

Poverty measures set a poverty line or threshold and then evaluate resources against that
threshold. The official poverty measure is flawed on both counts: it uses thresholds that are …

Six temporary federal initiatives enacted in 2009 and 2010 to bolster the economy by lifting
consumers' incomes and purchases kept nearly 7 million Americans out of poverty in 2010 …